- Educating leadership about the skills students need
- Realize that writing isn`t just in papers or books
- To embed technology into the culture, requires paradigm shift that we can all be a part of (if we make time, etc)
- Change the conversation from "technology applications" to good teaching and learning (which will include tech integration)
- Be courageous
- Individuals need to be open minded and willing to try new initiatives
- Spread the word and believe that it`s okay for the kids to know more and teach us
- Learn to ask forgiveness and not permission for trying out new things
- It`s okay to fail
- Change NCLB to ECLP (every child learns passionately)
- Discussions about passion based learning at state and national level
- Positive experiences (blended pilot)
- Incentivize change..make it worth their while
- Staff supporting each other- encouraging each other to be courageous in triyng even if the lesson/project/etc fails
- Support staff effort
Collaboration (24 dots)
- What can individuals do? Ask people why? Why are you doing that?
- Collaboration team teaching to allow for "on the job" professional development
- Team teach until your comfortable using a 21st century skill (modeling)
- Collaboration between staff to develop/plan/implement rather than work in isolation
- Offer to help or show a peer new ideas
- Develop collaboration model for achieving goal (like we did in PLP)
- Team project based learning
- Help teachers in different buildings collaborate
- Let others know what you are doing and what benefits are
- Mandate that everyone will do one thing- and make it do-able
- Use PLN`s to generate 21st century skill products that get featured for other staff and parents
- Continue to strive to be better
- Branch out beyond the brick and mortar
- Creating an atmosphere where its safe to talk about your teaching (success and failures)
- Peers- collaborating with peers on a challenge. How to use a piece of software or teach x. But in a new and engaging way? reward for collaboration
- Engage parents/community
Leadership (29 dots)
- Get teachers permission to try something and to fail and to know they`ll still be valued
- Freedom to fire people who are not on board with passion-based, 21st century pedagogy
- LMS
- Build trust- communicate. Administrators trust teachers; teachers trust kids
- Administration encouraging/supporting "muckiness"..giving permission to try and to flounder while trying new tech/new curriculum..
- Admins need to work together in large districts to create a focus for teacher learning
- Teach by example (with passion!)
- Admin to be removed from classroom- all admin teach a class/semester
- Require administrators to meet tech competencies
- If you dont know where you are going, any road will get you there- facilitate conversations to gain understanding
- Vision- define and made visible through a leader on a daily basis
- Scaffold learning with "end in view" vision shared with teachers (never really an "end" through)
- Include a teach integration goal as part of annual review process
- Show how 21st century works into current plan
- There is building support for creativity in teaching
- People are very willing to learn and willing to share in our building
- Support for individuals who want to break the mold and do things in new and innovative ways
- Supportive admin
- Help administrators get rid of things instead of constantly adding to our plates
- Take something off the teachers plate
- Grassroots effort- start with the ones most willing to change and spread from there
- Be first, second, and third follower
- Change some teachers attitudes
- Take baby steps so teachers aren`t overwhelmed
- Grassroots with gentle, consist. pressure from leadership/ for change to occur
Time (23 dots)
- Year round school
- Blended learning. Face to face and online. Free up teacher time
- Downsize number of new initiatives being introduced and implemented
- Time for teachers to collaborate and to create
- Time issue.. try to learn/do one new thing each year
- Time to learn and try different teaching techniques/projects in your class
- Monday- Prep and learn teacher days. School: T W Th F
- Year round school with 1/wk per month dedicated to professional development
- Teachers would be given 20% of their work week to expand their PLN
Parents/Community (22 dots)
- Start a grassroots movement to talk about future education needs
- What can individuals do? *Support forward thinking
- Get parents and community up to speed
- Opportunities to share "success stories" with community, other teachers, school boards, admin
- Instead of teacher and student buy in we need parent/community buy in
- Parent and community education
- Education forums for teaching parents, students, and community stake-holders the value and meaning of the 21st century teaching/learning
- Educate parents and community using parents and community members to share 21st century skills, tools- ways of "being"
- Educate the community of the overall plan a time frame, and likely positive long term results
- Communicating with parents and community where we are going
Hardware (10 dots)
- 1:1 laptop program nationwide
- Unlimited space for teachers doing things online (dont limit server space)
- More robust internet
- Purchase iPads (or laptops) for each students so they can be integrated into teach course
- Laptops in hands of all kids
- Stop using the excuse "I cant get into the computer lab" use mobile devices in the classroom
- Create a system (policies and procedures) to hold individuals accountable for tech integration
Environment (8 dots)
- Less structured academic time during the school day. Time to experiment/share/discuss openly
- Make it possible to rearrange classroom space
- Regularly include a "playtime" segment at faculty meetings that uses a new tool, skill, or concept to promote laughter, excitement or awe/wonder
University/College (4 dots)
- Set up a tech course for university students
- Partner with all stakeholders
Deconstruction (4 dots)
- Start our own school
- Make classes, instructors, schedules, curriculum, standards more flexible
- Be willing to learn from failure
- Let worst-case scenarios happen; let the ship sink
- What innovative ideas can you suggest? Blow up the current system. Get rid of tenure, invest in good teachers/facilitators
Mentoring (11 dots)
- #1 model what you are doing in your classroom and as far as PD
- Keep talking, pushing, cajoling, encouraging
- Community outreach and education are crucial- we (adults) need to work together to help kids move forward with inevitable tech changes
- Supporting and modeling innovation
- Connect students with the community form mutual support
- Teachers mentoring other teachers
- Individuals can continue talking to their colleagues, teaching, and learning together and encouraging each other
- Move slowly but steadily toward big ideas
- To over-come staff`s fear of change buddy/pair teachers up to mentor each other: work through problems
- LMS as support person
- Balance individual teacher coaching sessions with small group PLNs
- Share results, positive examples
- Model skills to staff and students
Accountability (5 dots)
- Accountability for training that was given
- Documenting and sharing video of the changes occurring in the classroom
- Accountability
- What actions can be put in place to overcome the barriers? ACCOUNTABILITY at all levels. Higher ed down to 5k
- Grow an ecology that allow failure
Funding (13 dots)
- Textbook not curriculum but only one resource
- Spend as much on education as we do on military (federal support). Especially for at risk students and schools
- Use "textbook" money to buy technology
- Turn senior year into a year of internships and real world learning for students. Use the money saved to pay for preschool programs
- More funding for technology support personnel
- Use funding to get everyone connected- Tools and wifi access. Some homes/schools/classrooms are still not connected
- Push that technology be adequately funded. Does each building have a budget for tech? if not, push for that!
- Teachers need more time- pay them to explore their passion and share it with students
- Money
- Access grant monies that are specifically geared toward technology
- Provide sufficient resources
- More funding for technology
- Save money by becoming more "paper free" and use the savings for technology
- We need to leverage our assets (let kids bring their own technology!)
Assessment (3 dots)
- Get rid of grades
- Let AYP fail and fall on itself
- Demonstrate to staff and student population that change is good
- Find a way to link student achievement to the engagement and learning that technology use creates
- Changes in or rethink assessment
- Continue to adapt what is currently done in the classroom
Students (7 dots)
- Solve real problems; hunger, bullying, AIDS, etc
- Individual learning plans for every student
- Need to give students the trust and flex. to handle using 2.0 tools at school. It`s give and take
- Ask the students how they want to learn the material and how the teacher will know they learned it
- Make students proud of their projects. Share with community
How to
- Individual teachers can design and implement one 21st century skill or unit
- Provide students and teachers with examples
- Offer incentives to change
- See examples of what is being done to accomplish the goal
- Identify pocket of excellence and duplicate those throughout the community
- Pay and/or perks for the first two followers
- Start small and grow. Get one or two followers
Passion (17 dots)
- Never be satisfied with today- our students lives will be dramatically different than ours at their age
- We have small pockets of innovation and enthusiasm in technology integration
- I can push myself to new boundaries. Share with peers
- Professional responsibility
- Individuals should follow their passion if we are learning and teaching with passion we will succeed
- I can continue to advance effective teaching in my classroom
- Develop our PLN to facilitate making changes in our own classrooms/teaching
- Keep trying new things
- Many students seem interested/engaged/ see the value of networked learning
- Technology committee (being a member of the committee, getting support for trying out things, hugs when it foes not work the first time
Systems (22 dots)
- Get rid of AYB and NCLB
- Web-based cross platform apps
- Let the process happen naturally/ The trickle down effect
- New method/system for determining progress
- Abolish k-12 education in favor of a readiness model that allows constructivist teaching and learning
- Create a new "system" like a charter school to avoid getting squashed by "the system"
- Eliminate age- grading
- Give teachers a set of standards to teach. Where X% of students have teacher- then they are done. what would be the most effective way to teach 150 kids?
- Teach outside the 4 walls of classroom. Visit museums and have a week class of investigative true critical thinking
- Teach digital responsibility so that technological barriers can be removed (filters)
- Flexible schedules for online learning
Professional Development (38 dots)
- Get staff development opportunities
- Increase technology access and PD programs to learn/ experiment with technology to increase learning
- Provide training
- Focus on first follower
- Build on pockets of success/functionality; feed the rabbits
- Mandatory media and technology training
- District days allocated for technology
- Put school board through PLP (and union governing board)
- Support teachers who are trying new things
- Highlight examples of innovation
- Teacher observations of model teaching strategies/methods
- On going coaching model
- Invest in teachers give them time and tools to be successful
- Build time into PD for teachers to work
- Eliminate face to face staff development- go towards a hybrid model so teachers more say when they will participate in PD
- Train new teachers. They dont come with the ability to integrate tech meaningfully into their classes
- Give time and resources to teachers to learn and observe other teachers
- Whats working? Personalized learning with tech through PD
- Maintain PLP network affiliations
- PLC time to collaborate
- Professional learning networks for all staff
- Teachers individuals can join PLN`s and take responsibility for their own learning
- Colleague conversations
- Collaborative connections teachers to share ideas/how to/success
- Give more positive recognition to those doing good stuff
- Downsize number of NEW initiatives being introduced and implemented
- Make professional development around technology a must for all staff
- Make sure teachers have some level of comfort with technology
- We have a number of staff members who are very tech savvy and forward-looking. Utilize their talents
- More required hours for staff development
- Professionalize the teaching profession- more like a doctor than a factory worker
- More PD on project based/student centered and learning
- Whats working now is diverse staff development to meet all needs
- Personalize professional development
- Design work to teach teachers about digital citizenship. Parent ed classes as well to change mindset and consequences
- Create teams of 3, from a different department. Team goal create 2 new courses (1/dept) that models 21st century learning. Each member of the team teachers 1 of the courses and engages in public reflection
- Infuse technology and passion-based learning from pre-school all the way to to college
- Train staff in 21stcentury learning and how it can transform student achievement
- Embed 21st century tools in content based professional development
- Continue to support staff in their journey
- Build more PLNs
- As an individual build a PLN
- Use differentiated in structure to teach the teachers
- Dont schedule predetermined staff development for teachers- make them submit a plan at the end of the year indicating how they have grown
- Staff development required for administrators
- Professional development support with time
- District focusing fewer initiatives and really going into deep systematic change. TRANSFORMATIONAL change..
Culture (40 dots)
- Educating leadership about the skills students need
- Realize that writing isn`t just in papers or books
- To embed technology into the culture, requires paradigm shift that we can all be a part of (if we make time, etc)
- Change the conversation from "technology applications" to good teaching and learning (which will include tech integration)
- Be courageous
- Individuals need to be open minded and willing to try new initiatives
- Spread the word and believe that it`s okay for the kids to know more and teach us
- Learn to ask forgiveness and not permission for trying out new things
- It`s okay to fail
- Change NCLB to ECLP (every child learns passionately)
- Discussions about passion based learning at state and national level
- Positive experiences (blended pilot)
- Incentivize change..make it worth their while
- Staff supporting each other- encouraging each other to be courageous in triyng even if the lesson/project/etc fails
- Support staff effort
Collaboration (24 dots)
- What can individuals do? Ask people why? Why are you doing that?
- Collaboration team teaching to allow for "on the job" professional development
- Team teach until your comfortable using a 21st century skill (modeling)
- Collaboration between staff to develop/plan/implement rather than work in isolation
- Offer to help or show a peer new ideas
- Develop collaboration model for achieving goal (like we did in PLP)
- Team project based learning
- Help teachers in different buildings collaborate
- Let others know what you are doing and what benefits are
- Mandate that everyone will do one thing- and make it do-able
- Use PLN`s to generate 21st century skill products that get featured for other staff and parents
- Continue to strive to be better
- Branch out beyond the brick and mortar
- Creating an atmosphere where its safe to talk about your teaching (success and failures)
- Peers- collaborating with peers on a challenge. How to use a piece of software or teach x. But in a new and engaging way? reward for collaboration
- Engage parents/community
Leadership (29 dots)
- Get teachers permission to try something and to fail and to know they`ll still be valued- Freedom to fire people who are not on board with passion-based, 21st century pedagogy
- LMS
- Build trust- communicate. Administrators trust teachers; teachers trust kids
- Administration encouraging/supporting "muckiness"..giving permission to try and to flounder while trying new tech/new curriculum..
- Admins need to work together in large districts to create a focus for teacher learning
- Teach by example (with passion!)
- Admin to be removed from classroom- all admin teach a class/semester
- Require administrators to meet tech competencies
- If you dont know where you are going, any road will get you there- facilitate conversations to gain understanding
- Vision- define and made visible through a leader on a daily basis
- Scaffold learning with "end in view" vision shared with teachers (never really an "end" through)
- Include a teach integration goal as part of annual review process
- Show how 21st century works into current plan
- There is building support for creativity in teaching
- People are very willing to learn and willing to share in our building
- Support for individuals who want to break the mold and do things in new and innovative ways
- Supportive admin
- Help administrators get rid of things instead of constantly adding to our plates
- Take something off the teachers plate
- Grassroots effort- start with the ones most willing to change and spread from there
- Be first, second, and third follower
- Change some teachers attitudes
- Take baby steps so teachers aren`t overwhelmed
- Grassroots with gentle, consist. pressure from leadership/ for change to occur
Time (23 dots)
- Year round school
- Blended learning. Face to face and online. Free up teacher time
- Downsize number of new initiatives being introduced and implemented
- Time for teachers to collaborate and to create
- Time issue.. try to learn/do one new thing each year
- Time to learn and try different teaching techniques/projects in your class
- Monday- Prep and learn teacher days. School: T W Th F
- Year round school with 1/wk per month dedicated to professional development
- Teachers would be given 20% of their work week to expand their PLN
Parents/Community (22 dots)
- Start a grassroots movement to talk about future education needs
- What can individuals do? *Support forward thinking
- Get parents and community up to speed
- Opportunities to share "success stories" with community, other teachers, school boards, admin
- Instead of teacher and student buy in we need parent/community buy in
- Parent and community education
- Education forums for teaching parents, students, and community stake-holders the value and meaning of the 21st century teaching/learning
- Educate parents and community using parents and community members to share 21st century skills, tools- ways of "being"
- Educate the community of the overall plan a time frame, and likely positive long term results
- Communicating with parents and community where we are going
Hardware (10 dots)
- 1:1 laptop program nationwide
- Unlimited space for teachers doing things online (dont limit server space)
- More robust internet
- Purchase iPads (or laptops) for each students so they can be integrated into teach course
- Laptops in hands of all kids
- Stop using the excuse "I cant get into the computer lab" use mobile devices in the classroom
- Create a system (policies and procedures) to hold individuals accountable for tech integration
Environment (8 dots)
- Less structured academic time during the school day. Time to experiment/share/discuss openly
- Make it possible to rearrange classroom space
- Regularly include a "playtime" segment at faculty meetings that uses a new tool, skill, or concept to promote laughter, excitement or awe/wonder
University/College (4 dots)
- Set up a tech course for university students
- Partner with all stakeholders
Deconstruction (4 dots)
- Start our own school
- Make classes, instructors, schedules, curriculum, standards more flexible
- Be willing to learn from failure
- Let worst-case scenarios happen; let the ship sink
- What innovative ideas can you suggest? Blow up the current system. Get rid of tenure, invest in good teachers/facilitators
Mentoring (11 dots)
- #1 model what you are doing in your classroom and as far as PD
- Keep talking, pushing, cajoling, encouraging
- Community outreach and education are crucial- we (adults) need to work together to help kids move forward with inevitable tech changes
- Supporting and modeling innovation
- Connect students with the community form mutual support
- Teachers mentoring other teachers
- Individuals can continue talking to their colleagues, teaching, and learning together and encouraging each other
- Move slowly but steadily toward big ideas
- To over-come staff`s fear of change buddy/pair teachers up to mentor each other: work through problems
- LMS as support person
- Balance individual teacher coaching sessions with small group PLNs
- Share results, positive examples
- Model skills to staff and students
Accountability (5 dots)
- Accountability for training that was given
- Documenting and sharing video of the changes occurring in the classroom
- Accountability
- What actions can be put in place to overcome the barriers? ACCOUNTABILITY at all levels. Higher ed down to 5k
- Grow an ecology that allow failure
Funding (13 dots)
- Textbook not curriculum but only one resource
- Spend as much on education as we do on military (federal support). Especially for at risk students and schools
- Use "textbook" money to buy technology
- Turn senior year into a year of internships and real world learning for students. Use the money saved to pay for preschool programs
- More funding for technology support personnel
- Use funding to get everyone connected- Tools and wifi access. Some homes/schools/classrooms are still not connected
- Push that technology be adequately funded. Does each building have a budget for tech? if not, push for that!
- Teachers need more time- pay them to explore their passion and share it with students
- Money
- Access grant monies that are specifically geared toward technology
- Provide sufficient resources
- More funding for technology
- Save money by becoming more "paper free" and use the savings for technology
- We need to leverage our assets (let kids bring their own technology!)
Assessment (3 dots)
- Get rid of grades
- Let AYP fail and fall on itself
- Demonstrate to staff and student population that change is good
- Find a way to link student achievement to the engagement and learning that technology use creates
- Changes in or rethink assessment
- Continue to adapt what is currently done in the classroom
Students (7 dots)
- Solve real problems; hunger, bullying, AIDS, etc
- Individual learning plans for every student
- Need to give students the trust and flex. to handle using 2.0 tools at school. It`s give and take
- Ask the students how they want to learn the material and how the teacher will know they learned it
- Make students proud of their projects. Share with community
How to
- Individual teachers can design and implement one 21st century skill or unit
- Provide students and teachers with examples
- Offer incentives to change
- See examples of what is being done to accomplish the goal
- Identify pocket of excellence and duplicate those throughout the community
- Pay and/or perks for the first two followers
- Start small and grow. Get one or two followers
Passion (17 dots)
- Never be satisfied with today- our students lives will be dramatically different than ours at their age
- We have small pockets of innovation and enthusiasm in technology integration
- I can push myself to new boundaries. Share with peers
- Professional responsibility
- Individuals should follow their passion if we are learning and teaching with passion we will succeed
- I can continue to advance effective teaching in my classroom
- Develop our PLN to facilitate making changes in our own classrooms/teaching
- Keep trying new things
- Many students seem interested/engaged/ see the value of networked learning
- Technology committee (being a member of the committee, getting support for trying out things, hugs when it foes not work the first time
Systems (22 dots)
- Get rid of AYB and NCLB
- Web-based cross platform apps
- Let the process happen naturally/ The trickle down effect
- New method/system for determining progress
- Abolish k-12 education in favor of a readiness model that allows constructivist teaching and learning
- Create a new "system" like a charter school to avoid getting squashed by "the system"
- Eliminate age- grading
- Give teachers a set of standards to teach. Where X% of students have teacher- then they are done. what would be the most effective way to teach 150 kids?
- Teach outside the 4 walls of classroom. Visit museums and have a week class of investigative true critical thinking
- Teach digital responsibility so that technological barriers can be removed (filters)
- Flexible schedules for online learning
Professional Development (38 dots)
- Get staff development opportunities
- Increase technology access and PD programs to learn/ experiment with technology to increase learning
- Provide training
- Focus on first follower
- Build on pockets of success/functionality; feed the rabbits
- Mandatory media and technology training
- District days allocated for technology
- Put school board through PLP (and union governing board)
- Support teachers who are trying new things
- Highlight examples of innovation
- Teacher observations of model teaching strategies/methods
- On going coaching model
- Invest in teachers give them time and tools to be successful
- Build time into PD for teachers to work
- Eliminate face to face staff development- go towards a hybrid model so teachers more say when they will participate in PD
- Train new teachers. They dont come with the ability to integrate tech meaningfully into their classes
- Give time and resources to teachers to learn and observe other teachers
- Whats working? Personalized learning with tech through PD
- Maintain PLP network affiliations
- PLC time to collaborate
- Professional learning networks for all staff
- Teachers individuals can join PLN`s and take responsibility for their own learning
- Colleague conversations
- Collaborative connections teachers to share ideas/how to/success
- Give more positive recognition to those doing good stuff
- Downsize number of NEW initiatives being introduced and implemented
- Make professional development around technology a must for all staff
- Make sure teachers have some level of comfort with technology
- We have a number of staff members who are very tech savvy and forward-looking. Utilize their talents
- More required hours for staff development
- Professionalize the teaching profession- more like a doctor than a factory worker
- More PD on project based/student centered and learning
- Whats working now is diverse staff development to meet all needs
- Personalize professional development
- Design work to teach teachers about digital citizenship. Parent ed classes as well to change mindset and consequences
- Create teams of 3, from a different department. Team goal create 2 new courses (1/dept) that models 21st century learning. Each member of the team teachers 1 of the courses and engages in public reflection
- Infuse technology and passion-based learning from pre-school all the way to to college
- Train staff in 21stcentury learning and how it can transform student achievement
- Embed 21st century tools in content based professional development
- Continue to support staff in their journey
- Build more PLNs
- As an individual build a PLN
- Use differentiated in structure to teach the teachers
- Dont schedule predetermined staff development for teachers- make them submit a plan at the end of the year indicating how they have grown
- Staff development required for administrators
- Professional development support with time
- District focusing fewer initiatives and really going into deep systematic change. TRANSFORMATIONAL change..